He could not bear to see J.J.even sharing _his_ dinner, and told him with bitterness that he would tell his mother.

"Weel, weel!" said the generous child, "I'll gin y'd a' back again." Of course the teacher interfered to prevent this gross injustice, and in the afternoon made their school-fellows perfectly aware of the part each had acted.

It is not easy to render a character like H.S.liberal, but a long course of such practice, for precept is impotent in such cases, might modify what in after life would have turned out a selfish, unjust, and unsocial character.
This selfish principle it is the great object of moral training to combat against.

We may trace almost all the misery in the world to it; and until it ceases to exist to the extent which it now does, little can be done to accomplish any good or great purpose.

But lessons like the above, and received into the infant mind when in a receptive state, will, if proper advantage be taken of their occurrence, prove in the hands of the Almighty a powerful engine for the removal of selfishness; and we know of no method so effectual to accomplish this object as the drawing infants into societies, which is done only in infant schools.
The following anecdote, bearing on the same subject, came under the observation of the author of this work, very early in his labour for the extension of his system.